Just try to sit across the table from someone with a set of these…
Name: Gemstone Raised Dichroic Glass Polyhedral Dice (with box)
Description: A set of frosted dichroic glass dice with raised numbers. They are whiteish opaque with clear numbers in a slightly serifed gothic font. Dots are used to indicate orientation on the 6 and 9 faces. The dice have slightly dulled edges (which is a good idea with glass dice) and the d10s have edged waists. The dice came with a slightly fancy leather trimmed box with protective foam on the inside.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20mm (Point->Point) 24mm
Where did they come from: Etsy (Seller: “RunicDice”)
How much did they cost: $95 including the box
Material / color: Dichroic glass that is frosted to appear white but the color reflected from the prisms and layers of metal oxides inside the dice makes for a colorful glow even in low / indoor light.
Quality: Excellent. These are very nice
Readability: Very poor. Forget the rug test. I struggle to read these dice as they are sitting 6″ away from me on the desk next to my keyboard.
Value: Fair to pretty good.
Overall Rating: 10/10 – They are very hard to read and a little spendy compared to other gemstone dice but the color / beauty trumps all. 10/10!
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 31 rolls
Ten d20 rolls: 12, 12, 1, 6, 12, 7, 8, 2, 12, 15 (8.7 avg!!) Rolling four 12s makes me just a little bit suspicious of the balance of this d20
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 13, 13, 13, 13, 10, 14 (76 total, and I rolled each of those 13s with a different combination of numbers) A Demure Dragonborn Paladin from a sleep harbour town who likes to speak in rhyme.
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
Random Spell: Destructive Wave: Each creature you choose within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 5d6 thunder damage, as well as 5d6 radiant or necrotic damage (your choice), and be knocked prone.
23 point of thunder damage and 13 points of necrotic damage on a failed save. Half of that on a successful save.
(This is another excuse for using random tables and rolling dice)
Random Tables rolls:
“I search the body” complications: 91 – They bore a supernatural debt which will fall on the first person to touch their body.
100 Encounters in an ancient crypt (Level 5 DnD 5e): 39 – The players come across a room filled with six statues of unknown origin and purpose. As they approach, the statues suddenly animate and move to attack.
(That second one was straight out of central casting)
(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: I didn’t think that I wanted a set of these dice. Without painted numbers they’re extremely hard to read. “Bah!” I said. “I shall have nothing to do with those dice. Good day sir!”. I had my mind all made up….. and then 2 sessions into my home in-person D&D game, the guy who sits across the table from me (Another dice goblin, yay!) pulled out a set of these dice and in the slightly dim and color changing light (our DM has an amazing game room setup) his frosted dichroic glass dice glowed. They were pink, blue, green, and yellow. Even in the dim indoor light of the game room they were glowing like magical embers. I tried to tell myself that I didn’t need a set of them and that lasted about one more game session of seeing them across the table from me. I got online to start searching for them the next day and ordered this set a few days later after finding a set that was all numbers. None of that emoji-on-the-20-face garbage for me.
These are so beautiful. The colors that come out of them from the reflections of whatever chemical elements that they sandwich between the layers of glass are very vibrant and the frosted glass gives them that soft glow. I prefer these over the set of regular dichroic glass dice that I own. (rated in post 33 “Glass Danse”). I got what I paid for here. They’re a little bit expensive for glass dice but they’re the most gorgeous glass dice I’ve seen so far. I think the price went up a little bit because the seller sort of forces you to buy a fancy case with them. A case that I should keep these dice in to prolong their life.
This set of dice was #5 on my “white whale” list of dice. (See the list in the very first post on this blog) Now that I can cross these off of the list, I think I need to add a chonk d20 made of this glass to that list. Looking at these dice makes me want more… things in my life made of frosted dichroic glass. Coffee mugs, coasters, wall art, stained glass windows, wind chimes, a 34″ scale four-string bass with a frosted Dichroic glass body, a one-piece roasted maple neck, PJ pickup configuration, a reverse headstock, 22 stainless steel jumbo frets, Dunlop straplock buttons, a white Graph Tech TUSQ nut, Metal control knobs with mother-of-pearl inlays, matching block fret fingerboard inlays in mother-of-pearl, and a new set of Ernie Ball slinky half round strings. You know… things.
Don’t sleep on these dice. They’re so very nice.
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